“It would be very difficult to get to a lethal dose of caffeine through consuming coffee,” explained Maggie Sweeney, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

“[Coffee] sort of has preventive measures because it is difficult to consume that volume of liquid.”

About 400mg of caffeine per day is safe for most adults, which is approximately four cups of coffee. But crossing that plateau may have you start experiencing “some of the negative effects of caffeine intoxication,” says Sweeney.

“You would normally expect it at [doses] greater than 500 mg. But there are large individual differences in terms of sensitivity, due to differences in the speeds our bodies metabolize, or breakdown, caffeine,” explains Sweeney.

Getting your caffeine fix from energy shots, or coffee with caffeine power (yes, people do this), it’s undoubtedly easier to ‘overdose’.

“Where it becomes more challenging is when there is a higher concentration of caffeine per fluid ounce,” Sweeney says.

“In terms of serious adverse events with caffeine, of someone losing their life or becoming hospitalized, they’re still relatively rare… But in terms of emergency department incidents involving energy drinks, that’s something that has increased as energy drinks have become more popular.”

So to surmise, you can keep reaping the health benefits and kick from your morning coffee. Just steer clear of energy drinks, super coffee drinks, and especially caffeine powder – which the FDA is adamantly against.